Fat
The world's weighty issue
The World Health Organisation claims that obesity has doubled since 1980. Audio
Coconut oil - miracle cure or marketing hype?
Kate Pereyra Garcia documents her three weeks eating coconut oil in part one of Healthy or Hoax, a new podcast series looking at the facts behind current health trends. Does it live up to the hype? Audio
The Cost of Sugar
Professor Jim Mann, Dr Jacqueline Rowarth and Professor Tony Blakely talk to Kim Hill about why free sugar is so bad, whether diet soft drinks are good, and sugar versus fat. Audio
Cat Pausé: fat activist
Fat people face ridicule and discrimination every day but this prejudice is based on an overly simplistic understanding of health, fat activist and academic Cat Pausé says. Audio
A fat gene?
Giles Yeo is is a neuroscientist and geneticist from Cambridge University who studies the the brain and how it controls weight. In a new BBC documentary called 'Why Are We Getting So Fat?', he travels… Audio
Fat Science: Dr Robyn Toomath
For 14 years, endocrinologist and diabetes specialist Dr Robyn Toomath fronted a vocal and visible campaign highlighting obesity. But in November last year, she wound up the action group she'd… Audio
Psychotherapist Susie Orbach - Fat is Still a Feminist Issue
Susan Orbach is a psychotherapist and author of the acclaimed Fat is a Feminist Issue, which was published for the first time in 1978. Since that time it's never been out of print - underscoring the… Audio
Don't Just Sit There - Do Something
Getting off our butts and taking regular short exercise breaks is much better for our health than continuous sitting Audio
Don't Just Sit There - Do Something
Getting off our butts and taking regular short exercise breaks is much better for our health than continuous sitting
AudioThe link between eating saturated fat and heart disease.
A New Zealand authority on nutrition says fat is a risk factor for heart disease and people should be eating less of it. Audio
